tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160371074353452445.post8207765496284398396..comments2023-11-29T09:27:11.895-08:00Comments on at home with the farmer's wife: Road Trip - The Homeplace 1850Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475380451527801666noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160371074353452445.post-86094847619784814752010-09-03T12:21:27.311-07:002010-09-03T12:21:27.311-07:00This story reminds me of something that happened j...This story reminds me of something that happened just yesterday... Our family was "adopted" by an old lady probably 30 years ago who was a friend of the family. We would go over to her house (a brick/plantation type home built in the 1850s) for dinner on most weekends, and oh boy, Christmas time! She loved Christmas decorations! She had millions of lights decorating the inside and outside of her house (her late husband was rich and he used to never allow her to celebrate it). My mom was in charge of decorating her main Christmas tree every year. One time the police department put a car counter in the driver during the holidays and it registered over 1 million cars in 1 month. She died in about 2000, but in her will, she left me money to pay for my college. Anyways, to make a long story short...yesterday morning someone burned the house down completely. I was so upset. Turns out if anyone would've put out the effort it could've been registered as a historical site. Not long ago there was some archaeological digs around there and they determined that indians had lived on her farm since the ice age! The home was even site to the first general store and post office in the area. Makes me sick that no one cared enough to protect it. It just sat there empty. I had no idea it was such a historical house when we would go over there, I just knew it was fun to play in! Here's a link to the article about the fire. http://www.annistonstar.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Davis+farm+burns+down-+arson+suspected+%20&id=9358851&instance=recentCommentsStephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18423029433065907454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160371074353452445.post-40533019936896143482010-09-03T08:14:16.898-07:002010-09-03T08:14:16.898-07:00This is my kind of trip! Thanks Suzanne. I love ...This is my kind of trip! Thanks Suzanne. I love history, especially seeing how people used to live, in different places. Here in Canada we get a some good British programming. They had a series called Victorian Farm, with 3 historians living as Victorian farmers, and then they also did a Tudor Christmas feast. There's also one called The Supersizer's Go, with a British couple spending a week in a different time period of British history, following mostly the food of that time period, but some other historical details as well. In Canada a few years ago, we had "Pioneer Quest" following 2 couples living as the pioneers did.<br />As kids, we took school field trips to Fort Edmonton and there is also a Ukrainian Village. We live too far away now for my kids to take a school field trip, but we really need to take them there some summer. There's also an old abandoned mining town a few hours away that I hear is very interesting too. Far more interesting vacations than sitting on a beach somewhere, I think! :)Lisa D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14777395903446188971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160371074353452445.post-51160434160316666312010-09-03T04:51:47.100-07:002010-09-03T04:51:47.100-07:00I've got John in here with me looking at the d...I've got John in here with me looking at the dogtrot. Neither of us had ever heard of this distinctive style home. I wonder how well the open hallway and the "up off the ground" styling helps with cooling. What say you? It's always fun to go on a road trip and, if I can get over my qualms about sleeping in that room...it's not the bed...I'll even spend the night.Veehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00618654361869856894noreply@blogger.com